" I think it's reasonable that the time and effort a creator puts behind a work is rewarded appropriately. "
Bards used to be able to go town to town or even in a specific town playing song at the local pub. Now they have to pay extortion level ASCAP and BMI fees to play anything that customers want to hear.
Yeah, that fingerprint crap is easy to strip out. Amazon mp3 files have it and you can easily download several tools to scrub the watermarking information out.
Every NSA employees home address, all the records on them published to a PUBLIC website and updated daily with their credit card records and purchasing habits.
They will gladly agree as they have nothing to hide.
"Getting the information from your old system to an out of the box solution is going to be a huge hassle, and you will probably end up losing a lot of data in the process."
It is absolutely possible for someone that has a clue how to work with databases to get the information from on to the other without losing anything. Unles the origional system was written in VB6 and is using some wierd ass system you cant run SQL queries or stored proceeders on.
Get the data out as a dump, and a little perl or python and you can get it into the new DB easily after a few tests.
"But 99% of this planet's population are nitwits,"
This! If anyone has a clue at all in CS and IT they will acknowledge this first and then design for the nitwits, but ALSO design for the people that have brains. Because it's us with brains that have to maintain this crap for the nitwits.
Yeah. go ahead and try to jam a directional satellite link with a general area jammer. there is 60db of attenuation alone if you are not above the aircraft.
the onboard jammer would have to be HUGE to affect anything outside of a short range, or the thing would have to be on top of it, so you might as well just use a heat seeking missile and blow it up.
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Most laptops have done away with it. I havent had that key on the last 3 laptops (Yes I buy a new one yearly)
Enter Sandman would have been better. Both more honest and far more bitchin'
Exit Light,
Enter Night,
Take my hand.....
We're off to never-never land...
You are an abnormal lefty, as my wife and I both mouse with the left hand and use the right hand ctl,alt,shift keys.
My sample of Two is 200% more than your sample of one so it makes it more better.
Download films? What dork does that. you rent the Bluray from Netflix and rip it so you get a superior copy.
" I think it's reasonable that the time and effort a creator puts behind a work is rewarded appropriately. "
Bards used to be able to go town to town or even in a specific town playing song at the local pub. Now they have to pay extortion level ASCAP and BMI fees to play anything that customers want to hear.
Then keep it safe and hidden. DUH!
Because they do it to me.
My personal information I never get paid for, yet companies pirate it from me daily.
Disagreeing with the current political party. They DESPERATELY want that to be blocked.
Yeah, that fingerprint crap is easy to strip out. Amazon mp3 files have it and you can easily download several tools to scrub the watermarking information out.
Even if the Schema doesnt match, you drop the rest in the "NOTES" field that they all have, this is Databases 101 stuff.
Take time to look and see what they are doing. It's a silly secret technique used only bu ninjas and shadow operatives. It's called research.
Every NSA employees home address, all the records on them published to a PUBLIC website and updated daily with their credit card records and purchasing habits.
They will gladly agree as they have nothing to hide.
I want a pony, I want a sports car, I want ice cream, I WANT EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT THE SAME TIME!!!
And then next week all of their decisions change yet again.
Never EVER ask the users.
"Getting the information from your old system to an out of the box solution is going to be a huge hassle, and you will probably end up losing a lot of data in the process."
It is absolutely possible for someone that has a clue how to work with databases to get the information from on to the other without losing anything. Unles the origional system was written in VB6 and is using some wierd ass system you cant run SQL queries or stored proceeders on.
Get the data out as a dump, and a little perl or python and you can get it into the new DB easily after a few tests.
All courtesy of the PATRIOT act.
Repeal that and all the crap that has been going on falls like a deck of cards.
Sadly not one of the spineless scumbags in washington dares to even talk of repealing it.
We have been this way for a very long time. It has only recently become so bad that even the blind notice it.
"But 99% of this planet's population are nitwits,"
This! If anyone has a clue at all in CS and IT they will acknowledge this first and then design for the nitwits, but ALSO design for the people that have brains. Because it's us with brains that have to maintain this crap for the nitwits.
Too bad linux doesn't have any usable CAD packages.
It seems every 7 years a distro rises from the ashes becomes popular and then implodes. Redhat, Mandrake, now Ubuntu.
I just wish the Gnome team would pull their heads out of their asses and work on functionality instead of ohh shiny.
Yeah. go ahead and try to jam a directional satellite link with a general area jammer. there is 60db of attenuation alone if you are not above the aircraft.
Physics.
the onboard jammer would have to be HUGE to affect anything outside of a short range, or the thing would have to be on top of it, so you might as well just use a heat seeking missile and blow it up.
The aircraft was useless as a fighter. It cant carry anything and is just a lawn dart.
It's all greed.
It's why I have no qualms in having my MythTV box at a friends house recording it for me and I get the files sent ot me via dropbox automatically.
Screw them. I give my buddy $10 a month for the box to sit there on his CATV and power.
Not all of us, just the stupid ones.
If I can install linux or Android on it.
Honestly their tablet hardware is fantastic, it just has an incredibly crappy OS with almost no apps for it.